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From fork-admin@xent.com Fri Sep 20 11:32:40 2002
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"Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:45:02 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:50:46 -0700
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> For my part, I'd rather people didn't use FoRK as a place in which to dump an
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> expression of their political beliefs.
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I'll second that, although with emphasis
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upon /dump/, rather than on /political/.
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I don't mind if people advocate nuking
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gay baby whales for jesus, if they can
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make a good, original, argument for it.
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I do mind if someone should attempt to
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further the notion that 1+1=2, merely
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by cut-and-pasting a few pages of W&R.
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"New bits" are not a temporal property;
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we create them when we add context or
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clarification to the old bits of others'
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thoughts.
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-Dave
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> ... being rude and disrespectful is not the way to influence
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> politicians, but the standard way of using lobbyists and
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> writing checks is beyond many of us.
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The standard way has some extreme precedents:
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> Q: When was the Roman empire sold, and who bought it?
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>
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> A: On March 28th, 193 AD, the Roman empire was auctioned off by the
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> Praetorian guards to the wealthy senator Didius Julianus for the price
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> of 6250 drachms per soldier.
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(as found in <http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/puzzles/5.html>,
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quoting Gibbon)
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Now, an economist might argue that selling
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offices is the most efficient way to fill
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them (what would Coase say?), but wouldn't
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that convince everyone (but the supporters
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of plutocracy) that efficiency is not the
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primary virtue of politics?
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